Business managers and directors used to rely on their experience and instinct to make tough decisions. Increasingly, however, they want to know what the numbers say. In the era of big data, ...

UW’s quantitative research methods minor prepares students for exciting careers in the world of academia and research. In this program, you’ll not only learn how to conduct high-quality research but ...

Institutional investors face complex decisions—where to allocate capital, which managers to trust, how to weather volatility. These choices can’t rely on instinct alone. They require data, structure, ...

When you make business decisions as a manager, you take into account qualitative factors like reputations, brand strength and employee morale, as well as quantifiable data such as sales figures, ...

The purpose of the Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Methods is fourfold: (a) to strengthen interdepartmental links and communication among social and human science departments at CU Boulder, both ...

Clearly, Goodfriend’s paper did not age well. It is offered up within The Rise of Central Banks, a new book by Leon Wansleben, an academic at the Max Planck Institute, as evidence of the complacency ...

In the lead-up to Friday's Federal Reserve Board meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the burning question is whether Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will lean toward a third round of quantitative easing to ...

In spite of some recent headlines, I don't think this move in equities is a function of Ireland's problems. If there were problems in the international money markets worthy of our attention, the TED ...

The rate on ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds rose from below 3 percent to 3.2 percent last week. Signals abound that that Quantitative Easing morphs into Quantitative Tightening. The rise in the bond rate ...